Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…

This being So, how should all that fear God be affected with the appearances and signs of his indignation? So was David, Psal. 119. 120. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments. He that feared not a Bear, a Lyon, a Goliath, yet trembleth at Gods judgments. So did Habakkuk, chap. 3. v. 16. When I heard, my belly trembled, my lips quivered at the voice, rottenness entered into my bones. Expressions denoting the deepest seizures of fear and greatest consternations; not that I would persuade you to such slavish fear, or unchristian dejection, as it is not only sinful in it self, but the cause and inlet of many other sins: But to a due sense both of the evils of misery that will befall the Nation when Gods indignation comes upon it; and the evils of sin that have incensed it; and to such a fear of both as may seasonably awaken us to the use of all preventing remedies. And first,

THis being So, how should all that fear God be affected with the appearances and signs of his indignation? So was David, Psal. 119. 120. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments. He that feared not a Bear, a Lyon, a Goliah, yet trembleth at Gods judgments. So did Habakkuk, chap. 3. v. 16. When I heard, my belly trembled, my lips quivered at the voice, rottenness entred into my bones. Expressions denoting the deepest seizures of fear and greatest consternations; not that I would perswade you to such slavish fear, or unchristian dejection, as it is not only sinful in it self, but the cause and inlet of many other sins: But to a due sense both of the evils of misery that will befal the Nation when Gods indignation comes upon it; and the evils of sin that have incensed it; and to such a fear of both as may seasonably awaken us to the use of all preventing remedies. And first,